title: Development of the participation assessment with recombined tools-objective for use after traumatic brain injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop a new measure, the Participation Assessment With Recombined Tools-Objective (PART-O), based on items from 3 participation instruments.
  
  
  METHODS
  Instrument development based on survey research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Community.
  
  
  METHODS
  Adults (N=400) with traumatic brain injury (TBI) 1 to 15 years postinjury, recruited from 8 TBI Model Systems (TBIMS).
  
  
  METHODS
  None.
  
  
  METHODS
  Community Integration Questionnaire version 2; Participation Objective, Participation Subjective; Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique; PART-O.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using Rasch rating scale analysis to evaluate the psychometric properties of participation items drawn from 3 instruments, a set of 24 items was developed that covered a broad range of participation content and formed a measure with person separation of 2.47, person reliability of .86, item spread of 4.25 logits, item separation of 11.36, and item reliability of .99. Items were well targeted on the sample with only 1 item misfitting. The PART-O showed expected relationships with measures of impairment, activity limitations, and subjective well-being.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The 24-item PART-O is an acceptable measure of objective participation for persons with moderate and severe TBI. It has been adopted as the measure of participation in the TBIMS.
authors.affiliation: Craig Hospital, Englewood, CO 80113, USA. gale@craig-hospital.org
authors.forename: Gale G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Whiteneck
authors.forename: Marcel P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Dijkers
authors.forename: Allen W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Heinemann
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bogner
authors.forename: Tamara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bushnik
authors.forename: Keith D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Cicerone
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.forename: Tessa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Malec
authors.forename: Scott R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Millis
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010358:Patient Participation; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires